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India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years Part I: Political Development India: Democratic progress and problems One of the strengths of India politically over Pakistan is said to be the fact that it has elected to take on a democratic system of government. There are several issues, however, with India as a democracy due to several factors including numerous cases of malpractice and corruption in electoral systems, which greatly undermine the soundness of the democratic institution. Another major factor that leaves one questioning the functioning of the Indian democracy is the political hegemony of Congress initially, which took time to change, and more so the dynamism which resulted in the chain of inherited leaderships with a power transfer from Nehru to Indira Gandhi, to her sons eventually and even later Sonja Gandhi, the daughter-in-law of Indira. Despite this ostensible threat for the over-centralization of power, the Indian democracy incorporates various other features that...

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